Presentations, Publications & Media

Presentations

Presenter and Panelist, Points of View on Supervision: Complexities in the Supervisory Dyad. Academic Lecture at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute (BPSI). Newton, MA (2026)

Presenter and Co-Moderator, Skin tone fantasies, colorism and the therapeutic relationship. Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute. Newton, MA (2025)

Group Facilitator and Workshop Developer, Actionable strategies for breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma. South Asian Psychology and Neuroscience Association (SAPNA) Conference, Cambridge, MA (2025)

Presenter and Panelist, Skin tone fantasies, colorism and the therapeutic relationship. American Psychoanalytic Association Annual Conference (APsA), San Francisco, CA (2025)

Discussant, Annual Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Case Conference. Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Psychodynamic Therapy and Research and the Spirit of Compassion for Leadership in Advancing Mental Health, Boston, MA (2025)

Guest Lecturer, A psychodynamic understanding of skin color in the therapeutic relationship with clients of South Asian heritage. William James College, Newton, MA (2024)

Presenter and Group Facilitator, Navigating Parenthood. Online Workshop and Question and Answer Session for Parents, Brookline, MA (2022)

Guest Lecturer, Diabetes and the Brain. Neuropsychological Assessment Center at MassGeneral Brigham, Salem, MA (2019)

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Gupta, K. R. (2026). Skin tone fantasies, colorism, and the therapeutic relationship. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 43(1), 64–73. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000568
    This article examines how colorism and racialized fantasy shape transference, countertransference, and the therapeutic relationship.

  • Gupta, K. R. (2025). Book Review: The Indian Jungle: Psychoanalysis and Non-Western Civilizations. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 73(6), 889–897. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651251365608
    A psychoanalytic engagement with non-Western epistemologies and the cultural assumptions embedded in classical psychoanalytic theory.

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